I'm a consultant and a flash developer, with former careers in graphic design, web strategy, and music production. My goal is to create better experiences through code, design, and talking about the business value of good user experiences.

One day in the future every trip on an airplane will be recorded with multiple cameras, for the entire duration of the flight.

Before they exit the plane, travelers will be able to download the full multi-angle video to their mobile devices. The file transfer will be near instantaneous, despite the huge file sizes. By then, every mobile phone will have enough storage capacity to store many videos like this.

It would be possible for the airline to keep a video archive of all flights made, where travelers could go to download the videos afterwards. That is not likely to happen though, because by this time we will have realized that we have to limit the amount of data we store. Not because of technological constraints, but simply because by then we will have learnt to let bits go.

So why would anyone want such videos? Perhaps for novelty, perhaps for including footage in their travel videos (or video logs). I don’t know.

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